Qilin Bringing a Child — Nantong Indigo Textile
c. 1950s · Homespun cotton
A child rides a qilin above a phoenix medallion, among gourds, butterflies and scrolling flowers. This worn blue-and-white household textile remains documented after sale.
Atlas · Technique
Handwoven homespun
Objects whose ground cloth is documented as handwoven or homespun in the working catalog.
40 documented objects
Four Seasons Weave — One Continuous Jiangnan Textile
c. 1960s–1970s · Cotton
One uncut, 6.5-metre Jiangnan cotton textile changes from indigo stripes to red-blue checks and denser plaid, with no joining seams between its woven sections.
Gentle Current — Jiangnan Wooden Comb Check
c. 1940s–1960s · Cotton
Soft red and indigo lines form a large square grid around fine comb-like inner stripes in this substantial, softly structured Jiangnan homespun cotton.
Hai Shang Ji Hua — Shanghai Shepherd’s Purse Picked-Weave Textile
c. 1940s–1960s · Cotton
A rare Shanghai-area tiaohua cloth in which tiny four-petal flowers are woven directly into a deep blue checked ground rather than printed or embroidered on the surface.
Nantong Peacock & Peony Textile
1970s · Homespun cotton
A long peacock-and-peony cloth documented as part of the Nantong textile group.
Vase & Child Folk Textile
Late Republican era · Cotton
A compact folk textile with a vase-and-child motif, retained as an archival reference.
Late Qing Butterfly & Flower Summer Cloth
Late Qing · Ramie / summer cloth
A narrow summer-cloth panel with butterfly and floral decoration, catalogued as a late-Qing piece.
Chongming Brick-Pattern Homespun
20th century — under review · Homespun cotton
A geometric Chongming homespun recorded for its brick-like repeat and compact format.
Nantong Indigo Diamond-Lattice Textile
20th century — under review · Cotton
A long indigo lattice cloth.
Four Seasons Flowers — Nantong Indigo Quilt Cover
c. 1950s–1960s · Homespun cotton
A large three-panel household quilt cover whose resist-printed Four Seasons flowers and historic patch repair preserve both auspicious symbolism and the evidence of long domestic use.
Dragon & Phoenix — Nantong Indigo Resist-Printed Panel
c. 1950s–1960s · Homespun / handspun-style cotton
A long narrow blue-and-white panel carrying dragons, phoenixes, floral vines and pearl imagery — motifs historically suited to wedding and household textiles.
Chrysanthemum Border — Nantong Indigo Panel
c. 1950s · Homespun / handspun-style cotton
A narrow chrysanthemum panel framed by geometric borders, combining the quiet cultural language of the flower with the practical format of an old household textile.
Snowflake Yarn Plaid — Jiangnan Handwoven Homespun
c. 1940s–1950s · Handspun cotton
A narrow Jiangnan plaid whose mottled grey “snowflake” yarn turns a quiet blue-green grid into a close study of handspun fibre, domestic weaving and traditional yarn preparation.
Old Pond Lotus — Nantong Printed Homespun Cotton
c. late 1960s–1970s · Handspun cotton
A bright lotus-pond print on substantial handwoven cotton, combining the texture of older Jiangnan homespun with a multicolour domestic print associated with harmony, rootedness and continued blooming.
Rosy Waffle — Raised Waffle-Weave Chinese Homespun
c. 1960s–1970s · Homespun cotton
A thick, soft homespun cloth whose colour and raised square texture are woven directly into the fabric, creating a nubby waffle-like surface rather than a printed design.
Sunrise Peony — Jiangnan Multicolour Printed Homespun
c. 1960s–1970s · Handspun cotton
A cheerful mid-century folk print combining red and blue flowers, green leaves, blue mountain-like forms and small rising-sun motifs over a substantial handwoven cotton ground.
Blue Garden Song — North China Bird-and-Flower Printed Homespun
c. 1960s–1970s · Handspun cotton
A vivid bird-and-flower folk print on a bright blue ground, structured by warm orange lattice lines and printed over a thick old handwoven cotton base.
Child & Vase — Faded Nantong Blue Resist-Printed Textile
c. late 1940s–early 1950s · Handwoven cotton
A softly timeworn blue-and-white folk textile with a rare child-and-vase composition, surrounded by floral medallions and dotted geometric forms.
Red Starlight — Warm Red Dot-Weave Homespun
c. 1960s–1970s · Homespun cotton
A warm red homespun cloth whose tiny natural-white dots, red flecks and uneven handspun yarn create a soft star-like field across the woven surface.
Crimson Peony Garden — Nantong Hand-Printed Homespun
Mid-20th century · Handspun cotton
Two matching cuts of handwoven cotton carrying large blue and pink peonies across a wine-dark burgundy ground, with hand-print variation still visible across the surface.
Four Seasons Dot Grid — Nantong Picked-Dot Homespun
c. 1960s–1970s · Handspun cotton
A dark indigo checked homespun animated by tiny red, green and white picked details, creating a dense field of small handmade marks across a firm old woven ground.
Double Joy Plaid — Shandong Lu Jin Wedding Cloth
c. 1960s–1970s · Handwoven cotton
A vivid pair of reclaimed Shandong-style Lu brocade panels in which colourful checks and character-like figured blocks are woven directly into the cloth.
Dragon Scale Grid — Jiangnan Figured Homespun
Mid-20th century · Handspun cotton
A wine-red and natural-white figured cloth whose raised linked cells are catalogued as a dragon-scale grid, giving the surface a dense, tactile relief.
Little Plum Blossom — Colour-Dot Chinese Homespun
Mid-20th century · Handwoven cotton
A bright narrow homespun with blue and red checked lines and tiny raised colour-dot blossoms woven into a white cotton ground.
Spring Ripple — Chongming Textured Plaid
Early PRC to c. 1960s–1970s · Handspun cotton
A vivid Chongming homespun in which a multicolour plaid is enriched by a fine raised ripple texture running through the colour blocks.
Pepper-Eye Weave — Double-Sided Jiangnan Homespun
c. 1940s–1950s · Handspun cotton
A narrow, substantial Jiangnan homespun whose tiny off-white woven points create the regional “pepper-eye” effect across a dark yarn-dyed check.
Blue Dragon Lattice — Nantong Treadle-Woven Homespun
c. 1950s–1970s · Handspun cotton
A dense Nantong / Tonghai treadle-woven cloth in which dark lattice blocks, bright borders, curving-dragon lines and pepper-seed details create a highly layered surface.
Blue Lightning — Meteor-Pattern Chinese Homespun
Mid-20th century · Handspun cotton
A long indigo homespun with a red-and-green outer grid and fine broken white marks that read like lightning flashes or meteor trails crossing a night-blue field.
Ink Cloud Current — Jiangnan Handwoven Homespun
c. 1940s–1960s · 100% handspun cotton
A narrow black-ground Jiangnan homespun with blue-and-white supplementary-weft details: substantial, soft and quietly patterned, with original sizing still present.
Rice-Grain Weave — Jiangnan Indigo Cotton
c. 1940s–1950s · Handspun cotton
A lightweight Jiangnan cotton in indigo blue and natural white, with fine rice-grain-like marks woven through a soft, breathable ground.
Starlit Tide — Chongming Dotted-Stripe Tubu
c. 1950s–1970s · Handspun-style cotton
A quiet Chongming handwoven cotton with a deep indigo ground and fine pale dotted stripes, named Starlit Tide for the way its woven points seem to move across dark water.
Harbor Grid — Chongming Handwoven Check
c. 1960s · Handspun cotton
A soft, light-to-medium-weight Chongming check in indigo, black and ivory, woven in plain weave with yarn-dyed cotton rather than printed on the surface.
Moonlit Reed — Jiangnan Reed-Mat Weave
c. 1950s–1960s · Handspun cotton
A substantial Jiangnan handwoven cotton with a fine indigo-and-cream reed-mat pattern: tiny interlocking blocks create a dense basket-like surface with real depth.
Auspicious Bloom — Nantong Multicolour Printed Homespun
c. 1950s–1960s · Handwoven cotton
Unused narrow-width Nantong homespun with layered red, blue and purple printing over warm ivory cotton, retaining the small shifts and overlaps of older multicolour production.
Forest Violet — Shandong Lu Brocade
c. 1970s–early 1980s · Cotton
A dense purple, mint-green, black and ivory figured cloth attributed to southwestern Shandong Lu brocade, with raised flower-like motifs woven directly into the checked structure.
Peony Lattice — Nantong Blue Peony Print
c. 1960s–1970s · Handwoven cotton
A long unused Nantong-style handwoven cotton roll with large blue peony bouquets over a dotted geometric lattice on warm ivory ground.
Emerald Willow Stripe — Nantong Handwoven Homespun
c. 1950s–1970s · 100% cotton
A one-metre Nantong homespun with an almost-black ground and slender navy, emerald, muted-red and cream dotted stripes that reveal themselves gradually at close range.
Midnight — Chongming Dark Stripe Tubu
c. 1940s–1960s · Handspun cotton
A long Chongming handwoven cotton that reads almost black from a distance, then reveals quiet blue, green, red and ivory stripes like small lights in the night.
Quiet Grid — Chongming Layered Check
c. 1960s–1970s · Handspun cotton
A narrow, firm Chongming-style handwoven cotton with a layered blue, black and ivory grid: fine small checks sit underneath larger crossing lines.
Midnight Thread Stripe — Nantong / Haimen Tubu
c. 1950s–1960s · Handspun cotton
A soft Nantong / Haimen dark-blue homespun whose fine teal, rose, ivory and red yarns appear as restrained lines of colour within the cloth.
These groups bring together descriptions from the textile records. Regional attributions and technical identifications may be provisional; open an individual record for its evidence and attribution notes.